Evidence for contagious behaviors in budgerigars (Melopsittacus undulatus): An observational study of yawning and stretching

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 89, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 264-270

  Miller, Michael L ^a,b   Gallup, Andrew C ^a   Vogel, Andrea R ^a   Vicario, Shannon M ^a,c   Clark, Anne B ^a  

^a BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

Contagion; Imitation; Response facilitation; Signal; Social coordination; Stretching; Yawning

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; BIRD; CONSPECIFIC; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FACILITATION; IMITATION; SIGNAL;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BIRD; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CONTAGIOUS BEHAVIOR; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; MELOPSITTACUS UNDULATUS; NONHUMAN; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PARAKEET; SOCIAL STATUS; STRETCHING; YAWNING;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; FEMALE; IMITATIVE BEHAVIOR; MALE; MELOPSITTACUS; YAWNING;

AVES; MELOPSITTACUS; MELOPSITTACUS UNDULATUS; PRIMATES; PSITTACIDAE; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 84857142020     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: 18728308     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.beproc.2011.12.012     Document Type: Article

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